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Post by sunny225 on Jan 28, 2024 2:49:25 GMT
simplicius76.substack.com/p/border-crisis-heats-up-as-biden-admin?utm_medium=reader2Border Crisis Heats Up as Biden Admin Loses Grip SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER JAN 26, 2024 There are a lot of goings on, as the world continues to slide toward the brink. Texas governor Abbott has pulled the trigger on directly challenging the Federal government on the border issue: He was joined by a slew of states, whose governors pledged their support: Republican governors are considering sending their national guards to Texas. Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma pledged to do so on video. In another video Governor Stitt called it a powder keg situation, sending echoes of Fort Sumter through many in the blogosphere: Desantis has already even vocalized plans to undercut Biden’s scheme of ‘federalizing’ the national guards to take control of them. Desantis plans to do this by potentially sending the ‘state guard’ which he says cannot be federalized. In fact, Desantis’s speech is a good one, even though it veers a bit off topic. But he brings up salient points about how Biden has abused federal authority in sending national guards to foreign lands like Syria and Iraq for obscure missions they were never meant to carry out. Biden immediately retaliated by announcing the suspension of LNG exports: While this has long been in consideration under the pressure of environmental groups, the timing has clearly left many declaring it an obvious attack on Texas, given that Texas is the premier LNG hub in the US: more at link * Also see this article: simplicius76.substack.com/p/on-secession-and-civil-war
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Post by BrewDaddy on Jan 28, 2024 5:35:07 GMT
brew-the-plant
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jan 28, 2024 11:31:32 GMT
Yeah, I could see it…
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 28, 2024 17:07:01 GMT
www.libertystorch.info/2024/01/28/alea-iacta-est/Alea Iacta Est By Francis W. Porretto in immigration, Usurper Regime Apparently, the Border Patrol doesn’t plan to cut through the razor wire. Twenty-five states are backing Texas’s toughening of its border. And a conspiracy to keep Donald Trump out of office has formed and is operating. Are there any classics scholars among our Gentle Readers? *** Once you demonstrate yourself to be in opposition to the Regime, you can’t say “We didn’t really mean it” and expect to avert the consequences. Should the conflict turn against you, the Regime will hunt you down. The victorious North didn’t spare the leaders of the Confederacy. If the federal government mobilizes an overwhelming force to crush Texas and its allies, or if the alliance backing Texas loses faith, the governors of those twenty-six states will become targets for reprisal. The Regime will not be magnanimous in victory. Tyrants, once challenged, can’t afford to be viewed as “soft.” Commentators have been speculating about a second Civil War for some months. Further speculation is unnecessary. The war has begun. more at link
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Post by farmrbrown on Jan 29, 2024 3:05:23 GMT
Hmmmm....I suppose.that's one way to look at it, but I always preferred to invoke Bugs Bunny's retort to Elmer Fudd. "It ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun." lol IOW if and when that happens I always tell'em you don't have to bother hunting me, I'll come to you. After all, I like hunting too. That stunned look of surprise on their face is priceless.
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 29, 2024 4:46:00 GMT
humanevents.com/2024/01/25/libby-emmons-what-happens-in-texas-will-decide-the-fate-of-the-nationTexas has been doing the work the Biden administration refused to do: securing the US-Mexico border against invasion. They erected fencing only for Biden's border minions to tear it down. They put buoy barriers in the river to stop people from crossing, but these, too, Biden's border guards took down at his order. They even took the case to the Supreme Court to ask them to tell Texas to back off and let the illegal immigrants flood in. In a completely absurd ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Biden and said that federal officials may cut the wire barrier put up by Texas to protect their state and, in turn, the entire nation from invasion. It was a 5-4 ruling overturning a lower court ruling that Biden could, indeed, cut the razor wire. Conservative justices, including Amy Coney Barrett, ruled against the state in allowing the appeals court ruling to stand. Texas is appealing, arguments will be heard February 7, there will be more lawfare between Texas and Biden, and for sure, the case is not closed. It's possible that the Supreme Court is attempting to put power back in the hands of the legislatures, and not the courts or federal agencies, as they did with the Dobbs ruling, EPA v West Virginia, or as oral arguments indicated they may rule in the challenge to Chevron deference. But until then, Texas, and the nation, are just open to the wolves at the door who seek to destroy the border and America. Literally what the hell. more at link
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 29, 2024 4:51:01 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Jan 29, 2024 16:11:02 GMT
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13017895/civil-war-texas-border-Dan-Patrick-maria-bartiromo.html Is this going to turn into a civil war?' Texas' Lt. Gov. slams Biden for failing to stop 'invasion' of migrants and calls them a 'cartel army' - as he's asked if WAR could break out between Texas National Guard and Border Patrol Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick warns the White House not to 'confront' National Guard Maria Bartiromo also raised the prospect of 'civil war' if the stand-off escalates
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 29, 2024 18:20:11 GMT
www.libertystorch.info/2024/01/29/stating-it-clearly-edition/Stating It Clearly Edition The Biden Regime is now openly blackmailing the nation: As Republican governors circle the wagon around Texas, President Biden on Saturday doubled down on a reluctant agreement to secure the southern US border – but only if Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would also allocate funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and would still allow as many as 150,000 illegal crossings per month. “If that bill were the law today I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly and bring a bipartisan bill that would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here,” Biden said, according to Fox News’ Chad Pergram. In more innocent times, this was once called “logrolling.” But regard well the some of the features of the proposed new bill: Legally establish 5,000 illegal aliens entering the country per day as the new norm, requiring the crisis hit that number before the president could invoke Title 42-esque authority, effectively forcing Americans to, at minimum, accept 1.8 million illegal aliens a year. Provide amnesty to a “documented Dreamer” class, taking care of 250,000 people whose parents replaced American workers under the deeply flawed H-1B guest worker program. Keep mass parole programs in place — provided illegal immigrants enter through American airports, not at the border. Give quicker work permits to illegal aliens likely committing asylum fraud by ending the 180-day wait period. Expand the already vast network of free benefits like legal services for illegal aliens — adding to the services American taxpayers already fund to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Funnel billions of dollars to the corrupt NGOs that profit off the border crisis by transporting, lodging, and helping illegal aliens enter the country every day. Does that sound to you like a closed border, Gentle Reader? But softly now: there is a bit more to consider. That “bipartisan bill” also funnels large amounts of money to Ukraine. And as regards funds previously sent to Ukraine: more at link
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 29, 2024 18:39:32 GMT
kunstler.com/cluster****-nation/the-next-big-thing-2/The Next Big Thing January 29, 2024 “The reserve of trust, patience, and deference, among non-zombies in the USA, is now ZERO.” — Jacob Dreizin I’m sure you can see exactly where all this is going. By all this, I refer to the cortège of disasters orchestrated by “Joe Biden” and associates — with help from a power-crazed globalist cabal — hauling our country at a gallop now to the graveyard of empires. Is there any question that they are out to wreck Western Civ? And speeding up the action because too many actual citizens are rising to oppose their degenerate wickedness? Most particularly, the people who have not surrendered their reason to the Woke-Marxist mind-**** that calls itself “progressivism” have had enough of the purposeful inflow of something like ten-thousand fake asylum-seekers a day across the border, mostly men, a lot of them from China, and many more of them mutts from faraway lands where Jihad is the order of the day — meaning the crusade to exterminate the people of Western Civ. We’re supposed to be okay with that. This deliberate, treasonous policy was rightfully declared an “invasion” last week by the Governor of Texas, requiring the human wave to be met with real force, not the welcome wagon that the federal border patrol has been turned into. The result so far is a real-live Mexican stand-off between the regime in Washington and the state of Texas, joined by twenty-five other sympathetic US states willing to send men and material to seal the border. None of this is reported in Monday morning’s New York Times, by the way, though you can read Is Dying Your Hair Bad for Your Health there. Nor will you read about the caravan of American truckers striking out from all points around the country to “peacefully protest and pray” at the border while Texas attempts to settle its hash with “Joe Biden.” Nor will you read about the uprising of European farmers blocking highways to protest ruinous EU rules on food imports, diesel fuel prices, carbon emissions inanity, and, of course, the officially-enabled tide of Africans and jihadists flooding into EU member states. “Joe Biden’s” response so far is to say he’ll attend to the border situation only if Congress green-lights another massive aid package for Ukraine, a dishonest proffer from any angle. Ukraine is a lost cause that should never have been a cause of ours in the first place. Yet securing the US border is a principal duty of the executive branch, not some optional fringe benefit to be used as leverage for other projects. Congress has already got impeachment articles ready for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, who has lied repeatedly under oath about the border being “secure.” But it’s obviously not enough. The failure is entirely “Joe Biden’s” and warrants his impeachment on its face, aside from all the evidence of bribery and racketeering among him and his family. The best move would be to impeach both the president and his proclaimed “border czar” Veep Kamala Harris — which would put Speaker Mike Johnson in the oval office. But the impeachment process is too slow and awkward for that. So, now I will tell you where all this is actually going: “Joe Biden” will seize an excuse to declare a national emergency and subject the US to some manner of martial law. lots more, including some tweets from the bimbo who sued Trump, at link
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 29, 2024 23:50:58 GMT
From the article:
In a sane world that would be called extortion.
Biden's primary role as President of the United States is to follow the Constitution, which clearly delineates border sovereignty. The other matters are peripheral to anything internal and must be dealt with as foreign policy matters.
To conflate Israel's survival with our southern border is an insane premise. I'm sure I'm in agreement with y'all, you deal with one problem at a time.
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Post by laurazone5 on Jan 29, 2024 23:54:23 GMT
www.rga.org/republican-governors-ban-together-issue-joint-statement-supporting-texas-constitutional-right-self-defense/Signatories include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), " Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), " Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Mike Parson (MO), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Mike DeWine (OH), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), G overnor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), Governor Mark Gordon (WY). I am very happy to see my state stand with Abbot.
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Post by BrewDaddy on Jan 30, 2024 0:50:10 GMT
I heard earlier today (I can give the source if anyone wants it) but have not verified, that despite the fun happening at Eagle Pass t hat the illegals are simply going upstream/downstream and crossing there instead...
I guess EP was just more convenient or something....
bd fed
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 30, 2024 16:43:06 GMT
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Post by sunny225 on Jan 30, 2024 17:04:41 GMT
This is a long but good article on the situation in Texas, as well as our country as a whole. donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/greg-abbott-and-the-invasion-of-theGreg Abbott and the Invasion of the Border Snatchers Uncivil division in a collapsing country We’ve come a long way from the Boston Tea Party. What would happen to “extremists” throwing tea into a harbor today? Independence Hall. Lexington and Concord. The Articles of Confederation. Patrick Henry declaring, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to my dying day your right to say it.” The Founding Fathers (sorry, there were no Founding Mothers, and certainly no Founding Transgenders) would all be marginalized if they were living and breathing in the Orwellian mess that is America 2.0. They’d be relegated to writing on Substack. Maybe some of them would be subscribers of mine. No mainstream media outlet would give them even a momentary platform. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Keep your “insurrectionist” thoughts to yourself. That little line should be confined to Ben Franklin’s womanizing. Yes, Ben actually used “would you like to join me in the pursuit of happiness?” as an eighteenth century pickup line. When he wasn’t consorting with prostitutes dressed as nuns in his demonic Hellfire Club. Aside from Franklin, and certainly the bankers’ stooge Alexander Hamilton, the Founders were a legendary lot. The “greatest generation” if such a thing ever existed. As recently as 1963, Thomas Jefferson was thought so highly of that President Kennedy would tell a state dinner comprised of some of the leading cultural figures of the time, “The is the greatest assemblage of talent ever gathered together in the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” That kind of comment would get any Democrat, and probably any American, “cancelled” today. Sally Hemings was the real talent behind Jefferson. She wrote the Declaration of Independence. Designed Monticello. Ask any court historian. He was a racist rapist. One of the few responsibilities ceded to the central government under the Constitution is defending the border. Article 4, section 4, states clearly that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion…” Our southern border has been under an invasion of illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, undocumented migrants, whatever you want to call them, for over forty years now. More significantly, the federal government has gone beyond enabling this invasion. They have assisted it. Made it possible. Probably financed much of it. Greg Abbott has been governor of Texas since 2015. He epitomizes the Stupid Party’s tradition of issuing lukewarm rhetoric about “border security,” but ultimately doing nothing to stop the invasion. For unclear reasons, he has now stepped up the rhetoric decisively. After the Supreme Court- Trump’s supposed court, with his lovely nominee Amy Coney Barrett voting with the Left as usual- made one of its trademark disastrous decisions, Abbott threw down the gauntlet. The Court ruled that Texas can not try to stop the Feds from cutting down the barbed wire fencing they’ve put up in places, in a laughable attempt to stop the flow of immigrants. Think about that; the highest court in the land- the Supreme Court- has ruled that a state cannot defend its borders. True, the Feds are constitutionally delegated with that power, but they quite blatantly have neglected to do this for several decades now. Under the Biden administration, the numbers coming across the border with literally no resistance from U.S. authorities, have reached such a critical mass that it has finally caught the attention of even the sleeping Republicucks. When you have one of the three branches in government- the Executive- aiding and abetting a foreign invasion, another- the Legislative- encouraging it as well, and now the Judicial branch giving the invasion a legal imprimatur, then you understand the situation. Abbott’s fiery statements brought to mind visions of Sons of Liberty dancing in our heads. He has sounded remarkably like the Confederates did back in 1860, when he charged that the federal government has broken their “compact” with the states. This was the central premise behind the decision of the southern states to secede. Our fast food culture insists it was all about slavery. The dastardly, tobacco spitting whiter than White secessionists wanted their slaves, and that was that. Abraham Lincoln, the secular saint of our crumbling civilization, responded by declaring, “The Union of these States is perpetual.” That contradicted, of course, the guiding principle of our War for Independence, which was that all people have a right to consent to those who govern them. In 1860, the Confederate states no longer consented. What exactly does “consent” mean, anyhow? In America 2.0, it has come to be a carte blanche power given to women (well, when there were women- now all gender is fluid), over whether a sexual act can take place. This power has been extended to well beyond the act itself, so that women who have had time to reflect on a bad decision can claim they were “date raped,” or simply maintain that they had said “no,” but the hapless, mindless, horny male used force. If you think about it, Abraham Lincoln was a rapist. Or at least a date rapist. Those poor southern states clearly said “No!” But Honest Able pushed on relentlessly, resulting in nearly a million American deaths. He took their consent and shoved it in them with extreme unconstitutional force. Now I don’t know that Joe Biden has Lincoln’s raping capabilities, but he is certainly a time-tested hair sniffer and all around creep. Not that he’d be making any decisions anyhow. He’s barely capable of eating his own ice cream cone at this point. If I understood it correctly, the deadline for his first ultimatum to Texas has already passed. Videos of Texans firing their guns have gone viral. There is supposed to be a huge trucker convoy going to the border, to stand with the brave Texans. And most shockingly, the governor of twenty five other states have signed on with their support. This includes the putrid RINO in Utah. This is extremely uncharacteristic behavior on the part of Republicans. The Washington Generals. The apology experts. lots more at the link
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